Visiting the Record Office

Admission is FREE and there’s no need to book. Here you will find all the information you need to plan your visit to the Record Office. We’ve produced this handy PDF checklist to help you plan your visit.

How to find us

Car parking: We have limited car parking with a dropping off zone and disabled spaces. Please telephone us if you would like to reserve a disabled space or discuss your needs in any detail. There is wheelchair access.

Coronavirus

Due to coronavirus Warwickshire County Record Office will be closed from 16:00 today (Friday 20th March 2020) until further notice.

We will continue to offer a limited remote enquiry service. If you have an enquiry, please email recordoffice@warwickshire.gov.uk. Whilst the record office is closed to the public, staff will be working on collections based tasks and to improve remote access to our collections and services.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused by this.

Admission and accessibility

There is no admission charge and you do not need to book an appointment.

Accessibility: Our searchroom is in a building with a range of accessibility features. Click here for accessibility information for the Record Office.

Our searchroom remains available throughout our opening hours.

We are not able to produce documents from the strongrooms between 12-2.15pm

Winter closures

The record office closes for two weeks each winter to allow staff to work on a number of projects aimed at improving access to our collections. For information on our closure work, you can read our previous reports

We have a tea room for readers where you can buy a variety of snacks and hot and cold drinks. We also have three public PCs in the tea room which can be used without a CARN ticket. These have access to subscription sites such as Ancestry and Midland’s Historical Data.

Contact details

Opening hours

Please note that the County Record Office is now closed until further notice.

Disability access

Disabled access features - DisabledGo has a detailed access guide, showing a graphical summary of the venue's accessibility using access icons and detailed information of the key features of the venue.